Sukhov
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
Here's an article discussing it.
https://www.imperiumromanum.edu.pl/en/curiosities/reconstruction-of-image-of-cleopatra-vii//amp/
On second thought, that's a terrible article!
I did a bit of very brief research, and learned that while surviving contemporary depictions of Cleopatra do not show a beauty by today's standards, those pictures may have been intentionally "masculinized" in order to bestow more authority on her image to the masses.
I've often read that Cleopatra was not all that physically attractive, and that her allure rested more in her guile, personality, and the power she wielded.
Well she was also literally inbred. Many inbred monarchs have had some very deformed faces and bodies. For example, this is Charles II of Spain.
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5 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Yeah, like they added her so it would be no big deal if she was killed.....
It's odd, none of the younger actors on the show really took off with their careers. I expected some of them would. I guess Boyle did somewhat; Had some great beauties on that show (Sherilyn Fenn etc.)
Sherilyn Fenn is really a bit out there. She has a Twitter account and she retweets a bunch of evangelical, religious stuff. I think her co-workers said she was very hard to work with too.
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10 hours ago, EricJ said:
As for "Why another Pearl/Midway movie?", think it's Roland Emmerich's career determination that we should forever keep confusing him with Michael Bay...Okay, quick, which one directed "Armageddon", and which one directed the 90's "Godzilla"?
Bay at least made it into the Criterion Collection.
Can't say that of Emmerich.
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39 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Lynch agreed to give away the rights to final cut to that film. He didn't even have any input on the expanded edition that aired on TV a few years later, so that was no director's cut. He vowed he'd never do that again, and he hasn't.
I'd still love to see what Jodorowsky could have done with the story. One of the great films that never was imo.
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7 hours ago, EricJ said:
Although I'll give S2 points for trying to raise the season-finale stakes with Agent Cooper in Love, as he's smitten by the new diner waitress, in his own odd way--He starts saying, "It's like the joke about the penguin--" before being interrupted, and Truman stares in shock: "Coop...You were telling a joke! 😮 "
("Two penguins sitting on an iceberg--One of them says 'You look like you're wearing a tuxedo.' The other one says...'Maybe I AM.'")The fact they just inserted Annie into the last few episodes to give Cooper a new love so that Audrey, Shelly or Donna don't end up being "the Queen" and a main character is eliminated permanently is probably the most annoying thing about it. Annie's scenes always feel so odd, like Cooper would fall in love with some random woman he just met.
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22 hours ago, Hibi said:
LOL. Reportedly the big nose ran in the family (from Ptolemy)
Yeah, her nose is very prominent in this Roman sculpture of her (looks a bit less protruding than in the reconstruction).
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"My famiry dried at Hiroshrima."
Yeah, that second season was really something.
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21 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
imagine a cameraman saying "hey liz, you just let out another one".
I'm sure the cameraman would find it quite lovely.
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7 hours ago, hamradio said:
Recent reconstructed image of Cleopatra.
I think I prefer Liz Taylor.
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7 hours ago, Hibi said:
I thought the James Black Widow storyline stupid and pointless. Just filler. Then he just disappears. Nadine on the other hand was funny.
I actually liked the Nadine storyline too. I was just joking around because those storylines are seen by many fans as when the show really jumped the shark.
2 hours ago, EricJ said:I assume you mean the "Weekend at Leo's" one...Do I look unhappy with them??
(And then, there were those terrible years of the Civil War...)
And this irritatingly smug guy.
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6 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Sometimes films with troubled production histories ending up becoming huge-huge hits. And I think this one most certainly will be a winner at the box office.
I will certainly watch it. James Bond is my favorite movie series.
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16 hours ago, EricJ said:
I, OTOH, would prefer to think that Season 2 never existed. Sadly, it did, but I can dream. 😓
You mean you really didn't like the Superwoman Nadine and Mike sexcapades and the James neo-noir murder plotlines?
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He's still expecting you, Mr Bond: Daniel Craig's ankle injury means producers can't find time for him to film showdown with baddie Rami Malik on 'cursed' 007 movie
- Production on the upcoming James Bond film is said to have hit a bump in the road as stars Daniel, 51, and Rami, 38, are unable to film together
- The James Bond actor recently underwent an operation as a result of tweaking his ankle ligaments after falling during filming in Jamaica back in May
- As the screen star prepares to return to work in the coming weeks, Bohemian Rhapsody's Rami will be occupied with other filming commitments
- Award-winning actor Rami is set to play the villain in the hotly-anticipated film, set for release on April 3 2020
- The scheduling difficulties of the movie's actors comes after three explosions went off at Pinewood studios after a stunt went wrong during filming this month
- Health and Safety officials arrived on the set of the beleaguered movie after an explosion ripped a hole in a sound stage and injured a member of the crew
- The incident is the latest in a slew of hiccups to plague the movie - with director Danny Boyle quitting, the writing team being added to and Daniel's injury
- The latest film sees Bond living a tranquil live in Jamaica after leaving active service before Felix turns up asking for help in a mission to rescue a scientist
- Also joining the cast are Dali Benssalah, Lashana Lynch, Ana De Armas as Paloma, David Dencik and Billy Magnussen
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Daniel Craig's recent ankle injury means producers can't find time for him to film his hotly-anticipated showdown with baddie Rami Malik on the 'cursed' Bond 25'.
Earlier this month, James Bond actor Daniel, 51, underwent an operation as a result of tweaking his ankle ligaments after falling during filming for a high-octane scene in Jamaica back in May.
And as the screen star prepares to return to work in the coming weeks, Bohemian Rhapsody's Rami, 38, who will play the movie’s villain, will be occupied with other filming commitments.
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Detailing the actor's filming clashes, a source said: 'Filming was meant to finish in September but now it's been pushed back to late October, early November.'
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'But they still need to find a time for Daniel and Rami to film together - 007 must come face-to-face with the villain. It's a complete logitical nightmare', an insider told The Sun
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TCM has also shown Rossellini's TV movies, Socrates and Blaise Pascal (both of which I enjoyed).
I hope they do show more of Rossellini's TV movies about philosophers and historical figures in the future (like Augustine of Hippo and Cartesius).
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TCM already does show Screen Director's Playhouse occasionally.
Each one is by a different director and unrelated to the last so I think this one is suitable.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
Michael Ontkean was SO cute!
I was really hoping he would return in Season 3 but they didn't include his character unfortunately.
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21 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Then there are all the classic stars who played villains on Batman. Anne Baxter and Vincent Price come to mind.
And Milton Berle. Louie the Lilac was my favorite Batman villain as a kid.
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Robert Osborne on the Beverly Hillbillies.
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5 hours ago, EricJ said:
Still, if Pete called him up distraught and said simply "She's dead, Harry...", wouldn't anyone else in town think Pete was talking about his "dear" wife Catherine? I wasn't sure whether Truman looked "surprised" to find out it was Laura, and if he wasn't, that would make him the only one in town (except maybe for Ben) who WAS expecting Laura to come to a bad end...Which would mean he knew something the rest of the town didn't.
Oh, well--The whole theory revolved around how willing Truman appears to be to convince Cooper that Leo & Jacques did it, and when Leo has to testify at the inquest, the camera lingers on an unexpectedly satisfied look on Truman's face...
Could have also been Josie Packard. I don't think "she" was intended to be anyone specific on either of their parts, just that a woman died.
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1. Goodbye Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker, Germany
2. The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet, France
3. The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand, Canada
4. Saraband, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
5. Memories of a Murder, Joon-ho Bong, South Korea
6. Oldboy, Chan-wook Park, South Korea
7. The Return, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
From the foreign editions-
Saraband, Ingmar Bergman, Swedish edition
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12 hours ago, EricJ said:
The first season is classic "Dream" Lynch, not just in the general slow sense of eeriness, but also his Eraserhead-callback in the famous "Agent Cooper's midget" scene. Probably the last good bit of artsy Surreal Lynch.
Unfortunately, all the proto binge-TV fandom to guess Who Killed Laura Palmer took over the image of the show*, and Lynch kept protesting that it was art, "not Murder She Wrote!" And after the murder was wrapped up in Season 2, there was nowhere to go, new directors stepped in with just as unspontaneously "quirky" touches, and Lynch's own boredom with the series started to drift off into inexplicably goofy tributes to "wacky" humor. Which he got out of his system in his next short-lived series, "On the Air", and that's enough said about that.
I'll give Season 3 credit for at least following on the unfinished cliffhanger of S2, and showing us how Agent Cooper came back--Unfortunately, they take one of the great iconic characters of late-80's TV, bring him back with a kind of empty amnesia, let him wander for six or seven episodes in a mindless daze in a different identity, and, "Weekend at Bernie's"-like, accidentally convince people he's a genius. Yes, it's the return of S2's Goofy Lynch, now trying to do his own version of "Edward Scissorhands". 😓
That's as far as I got in S3, so I don't know what happened to his dual role as Cooper's evil doppelgänger, now on a midwest crime spree. (That's the Highway/Roadhouse Lynch, taking over again.)
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* - Back before the S1 season-finale, our group had a betting pool for whodunit--I had an almost perfect...perfect...scenario for how Sherriff Truman could have done it, but then S2 happened. Hint: When Pete first calls in the body at the very beginning, why does Harry seem to know who he's talking about?
The Dougie Jones character reminded me more of Jacques Tati or Charlie Chaplin, rolling along from scene to scene and blissfully unaware of everything around him. Also, I think Truman was just aware that a woman had been killed and when he turns over the body he looks genuinely surprised that Laura had been murdered. I would have probably ruled him out. Truman is my favorite character (alongside Cooper) and is very upstanding. It is such a shame that he and Josie didn't get a good ending in Season 2 like how Ed and Norma got one in season 3. That's one of my gripes with season 2.
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20 hours ago, Hibi said:
I just rewatched Twin Peaks on Decades the last 2 months. (The original, not the sequel which I've never seen). It still holds up pretty well.
Also like you, I am a big fan of Twin Peaks. I'm one of the few to defend the much maligned second season (I genuinely enjoy the strong Nadine storyline and Andy and Dick fighting to be the father to the receptionist's child). Season 3 is also very good but it is much more "Lynchian" in tone than the first two seasons which I liked but it isn't for everyone.
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1 hour ago, skimpole said:
First, if people rationalized their vote for Rainer on the grounds that she showed marked versatility playing a Chinese peasant, I suspect this view would not have been easy to hold if Academy members actually knew Chinese women. And there's a whole host of non-aesthetic criteria why Rainer may have been chosen. MGM ruthlessly lobbied for its own movies. The Good Earth was more "elevated" than runner-up Greta Garbo in Camille. Japan had attacked China the previous year, and the rape of Nanking was only a few months before.
Second, I would have nominated Garbo, Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth, Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door and Beulah Bondi in Make Way for Tomorrow. But my actual winner would Zhou Xuan in Street Angel.
Mine would be Jiang Qing for Lianhua Symphony (though Scenes of City Life is her best film imo - a decent blend of musical, comedy and drama almost reminiscent of Chaplin).
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11 hours ago, Hibi said:
He could also direct mainstream movies quite well (The Straight Story) when he felt like it.
Elephant Man too is very beautiful.
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David Lynch Receiving Honorary Oscar
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The best Cole scene is when he kisses Shelly in front of Bobby and says something like "THIS IS HOW TWO ADULTS SHOW MUTUAL LOVE. PAY ATTENTION, KID."